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‘The Home of the Late Charles Darwin’, The Graphic, (1st July, 1882)

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On his death in 1882 Darwin was celebrated as something of a national hero. Although often controversial, he was “one of the greatest naturalists of his time”. Darwin’s correspondence is key to understanding how he achieved this status. The letters reveal that - alongside a brilliant mind and set of original ideas – collaboration and a carefully considered editing process were crucial in constructing the great man of science.

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NPR.C.53

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1 July 1882

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‘Charles Robert Darwin’, The Graphic, (29th April, 1882)

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On his death in 1882 Darwin was celebrated as something of a national hero. Although often controversial, he was “one of the greatest naturalists of his time”. Darwin’s correspondence is key to understanding how he achieved this status. The letters reveal that - alongside a brilliant mind and set of original ideas – collaboration and a carefully considered editing process were crucial in constructing the great man of science.

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Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (London, 1872)

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Like Descent, the main consideration of Expression is human origins. In Expression Darwin focused on human emotion and psychology, exploring the origin of genetically determined aspects of human behaviour and emotion.

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Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (London, 1871)

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Descent is Darwin’s second book on evolutionary theory. In Descent Darwin applies the evolutionary theory of On the Origin of the Species (1859) to human evolution; he provides detailed evidence of the relationship between man and other forms and expands on his theory of ‘sexual selection’ – i.e. the inter and intra selection of sexual partners which drove the evolution of species.

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William Swale to Charles Darwin (13th July, 1858)

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William Swale, a prominent nurseryman in New Zealand, writes to Darwin to discuss the absence of a native bee in New Zealand. His letter included four bee specimens labeled ‘Naturalised Bee’. Shown in three formats; the original letter (scanned), a footnoted transcription from the published volume and a digital version from the Darwin Correspondence Project website.

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Charles Darwin as represented in Vanity Fair’s ‘Men of the Day’ series in 1871. As this image and caption suggests, by the time he published Descent in 1871 Charles Darwin was well known and well respected for his major work On the Origin of the Species, first published almost twelve years earlier.